Public Act 0872 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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Public Act 093-0872

AN ACT concerning museums.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Department of Natural Resources Act is amended by changing Section 1-25 as follows:

(20 ILCS 801/1-25)

Sec. 1-25. Powers of the scientific surveys and State Museum. In addition to its other powers and duties, the Department shall have the following powers and duties which shall be performed by the scientific surveys and the State Museum:

(1) To investigate and study the natural resources of the State and to prepare printed reports and furnish information fundamental to the conservation and development of natural resources and for that purpose the officers and employees thereof may, pursuant to rule adopted by the Department, enter and cross all lands in this State, doing no damage to private property.

(2) To cooperate with and advise departments having administrative powers and duties relating to the natural resources of the State, and to cooperate with similar departments in other states and with the United States Government.

(3) To conduct a natural history survey of the State, giving preference to subjects of educational and economical importance.

(4) To publish, from time to time, reports covering the entire field of zoology and botany of the State.

(5) To supply natural history specimens to the State educational institutions and to the public schools.

(6) To investigate the entomology of the State.

(7) To investigate all insects dangerous or injurious to agricultural or horticultural plants and crops, livestock, to nursery trees and plants, to the products of the truck farm and vegetable garden, to shade trees and other ornamental vegetation of cities and villages, to the products of the mills and the contents of warehouses, and all insects injurious or dangerous to the public health.

(8) To conduct experiments with methods for the prevention, arrest, abatement and control of insects injurious to persons or property.

(9) To instruct the people, by lecture, demonstration or bulletin, in the best methods of preserving and protecting their property and health against injuries by insects.

(10) To publish, from time to time, articles on the injurious and beneficial insects of the State.

(11) To study the geological formation of the State with reference to its resources of coal, ores, clays, building stones, cement, materials suitable for use in the construction of roads, gas, mineral and artesian water and other products.

(12) To publish, from time to time, topographical, geological and other maps to illustrate resources of the State.

(13) To publish, from time to time, bulletins giving a general and detailed description of the geological and mineral resources, including water resources, of the State.

(14) To cooperate with United States federal agencies in the preparation and completion of a contour topographic map and the collection, recording and printing of water and atmospheric resource data including stream flow measurements and to collect facts and data concerning the volumes and flow of underground, surface and atmospheric waters of the State and to determine the mineral qualities of water from different geological formations and surface and atmospheric waters for the various sections of the State.

(15) To publish, from time to time, the results of its investigations of the mineral qualities, volumes and flow of underground and surface waters of the State to the end that the available water resources of the State may be better known and to make mineral analyses of samples of water from municipal or private sources giving no opinion from those analyses of the hygienic, physiological or medicinal qualities of such waters.

(16) To act as the central data repository and research coordinator for the State in matters related to water and atmospheric resources. The State Water Survey Division of the Department may monitor and evaluate all weather modification operations in Illinois.

(17) To distribute, in its discretion, to the various educational institutions of the State, specimens, samples, and materials collected by it after the same have served the purposes of the Department.

(18) To cooperate with the Illinois State Academy of Science and to publish a suitable number of the results of the investigations and research in the field of natural science to the end that the same may be distributed to the interested public.

(19) To maintain a State Museum, and to collect and preserve objects of scientific and artistic value, representing past and present fauna and flora, the life and work of man, geological history, natural resources, and the manufacturing and fine arts; to interpret for and educate the public concerning the foregoing.

(20) To cooperate with the Illinois State Museum Society for the mutual benefit of the Museum and the Society, with the Museum furnishing necessary space for the Society to carry on its functions and keep its records, and, upon the recommendation of the Museum Director with the approval of the Board of State Museum Advisors and the Director of the Department, to enter into agreements with the Illinois State Museum Society for the operation of a sales counter and other concessions for the mutual benefit of the Museum and the Society.

(21) To accept grants of property and to hold property to be administered as part of the State Museum for the purpose of preservation, research of interpretation of significant areas within the State for the purpose of preserving, studying and interpreting archaeological and natural phenomena.

(22) To contribute to and support the operations, programs and capital development of public museums in this State. For the purposes of this Section, "public museum" means a facility: (A) that is operating for the purposes of promoting cultural development through special activities or programs or through performing arts that are performed in an indoor setting, and acquiring, conserving, preserving, studying, interpreting, enhancing, and in particular, organizing and continuously exhibiting specimens, artifacts, articles, documents and other things of historical, anthropological, archaeological, industrial, scientific or artistic import, to the public for its instruction and enjoyment, and (B) that either (i) is operated by or located upon land owned by a unit of local government or (ii) is a museum that has an annual indoor attendance of at least 150,000 and offers educational programs to school groups during school hours. A museum is eligible to receive funds for capital development under this subdivision (22) only if it is operated by or located upon land owned by a unit of local government or if it is certified by a unit of local government in which it is located as a public museum meeting the criteria of this Section. Recipients of funds for capital development under this subdivision (22) shall match State funds with local or private funding according to the following:

(a) for a public museum with an attendance of 300,000 or less during the preceding calendar year, no match is required;

(b) for a public museum with an attendance of over 300,000 but less than 600,000 during the preceding calendar year, the match must be at a ratio of $1 from local and private funds for every $1 in State funds; and

(c) for a public museum with an attendance of over 600,000 during the preceding calendar year, the match must be at a ratio of $2 from local and private funds for every $1 in State funds.

The Department shall formulate rules and regulations relating to the allocation of any funds appropriated by the General Assembly for the purpose of contributing to the support of public museums in this State.

(23) To perform all other duties and assume all obligations of the former Department of Energy and Natural Resources and the former Department of Registration and Education pertaining to the State Water Survey, the State Geological Survey, the State Natural History Survey, and the State Museum.

(24) To maintain all previously existing relationships between the State Water Survey, State Geological Survey, and State Natural History Survey and the public and private colleges and universities in Illinois.

(25) To participate in federal geologic mapping programs.

(Source: P.A. 92-606, eff. 6-28-02.)

Effective Date: 1/1/2005